7:30 doors, 8pm show,
Smut
Hosted by: Desiree Burch
(pictured, photo by Sarah Sloboda)
"It's art that should carry a Parental Advisory label, with some of New York City's best writers and performers."
--New York Times
This week:
Monday, 4/02, frontroom, free
7:30 doors, 8pm show,
Smut
Hosted by: Desiree Burch
(pictured, photo by Sarah Sloboda)
"It's art that should carry a Parental Advisory label, with some of New York City's best writers and performers."
--New York Times
This week:
Monday 4/2 frontroom $5
9:30pm
Monday Night Burlesque Presents:
Miss Galapagozanga Amateur Burlesque Contest
Hosted By; Murray Hill & Miss Allison
Monday, 4/2, 7.30pm
Back Room
Free
Raw Word Readings
Three screenplay excerpts performed cold by up-and-coming actors in this IFP-sponsored festival of writer and actor talent. Special guest from the film industry!
A great night of performance entertainment, feedback, and film-industry pow-wow.
Recently a Sundance short was shown, a producer from Frank Marshall's company (Bourne Identity) discovered one of our writers, and Hubby Jenkins and Pilar played some groovy roots music during brief
interludes. Great fun for everyone!
Always seeking new 10-page submissions in PDF or Word Format on a
rolling-submissions basis!
www.therawword.com
Tuesday 4/3
7pm
Reel Life: Movie Haus
Tuesday 4/3, $10 suggested donation
7-10pm
Film Screening and Night with the Director
"Hearts and Minds"
and "Saving Hubble",
Join the Dynamic Magazine crew of the Young Communist League and the crew of the independent documentary film Saving Hubble for a special “Night with the Director” event. Director of Saving Hubble, David Gaynes, will show the film that most influenced him as an independent filmmaker—Hearts and Minds, the award-winning documentary on the Vietnam War—and will discuss how it moved him to make his current film, Saving Hubble, an innovative hybrid film about science,
politics, and our priorities as a culture. Scenes and a trailer from
Saving Hubble will be shown after Hearts and Minds.
Q&A with the director and discussion to follow. 
View a trailer and learn more about the film Saving Hubble at http://www.savinghubble.com
Learn more about Dynamic Magazine and the Young Communist League at http://www.yclusa.org
This is a fundraising event to support the causes of Dynamic Magazine and Saving Hubble. $10 suggested donation.
Wednesday 4/4 frontroom $5 From sketches for the tried and true vaudevillian, to the grotesque, and to the depths of absurdity, we aim to challenge our audiences with laughter, and instigate thought through destroying the norms of acceptable, safe, and run-down comedy.
Wednesday 4/4 frontroom
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Wednesday 4/4 backroom
4/5 frontroom $5 Sketch This is an extremely diverse group that likes to give it good and hard while still making you feel like a lady... men included. Come join Sketch This and friends, Totally Awesome Victory and Cleanest River in America for a night of mind blowing sketch-tacular fun! 4/5 frontroom 10PM
4/5 backroom The Variety Shac includes Andrea Rosen, Chelsea Peretti, Heather Lawless, Shonali Bhowmik and their amazing guests. The Shac is part comedy, part music, part film, part exploration but 100% heart and soul. Free of charge! Shac on!
Fridays, April 6, 13, 20, 27, frontroom
4/6 frontroom $8 Djs: Oil (KanineRecords), Toby Rascal (KanineRecords), and Gerald(OtherMusic) (11:00pm) Setting Sun live performance Idlewild "Make Another World" new album listening party with giveaways from Filter. *new and old school sk8 videos projected on a huge screen all night long!
Fridays, April 6, 13, 20, 27,backroom Presented by Working Man's Clothes (winner of 6 NYIT Awards for "To Ninevah") and The Thursday Problem ("Dread Awakening"), Fuckplays is a voyeuristic journey through six playwrights' most private places; a sincere examination of our most basic carnal desires. From American Apparel ads to Sex and the City, we live in a dream world of constant fucking and endless possibilities. But in a society where explicit sex and pornography have veered ever closer to the mainstream, do we as Americans have a more unrealistic view of sex than ever before? What role does sex really play in your life? How do you perceive it? Do it? Talk about it? Fight about it?... Ultimately, what does sex mean to you? In this new 10 minute play festival 4 of NYC's hottest emerging playwrights combine with 4 of The Lone Star State's most explicit dramatists at Galapagos Art Space's EVOLVE Series every friday in April. Every night 8 short plays will guide patrons through a cross-spectrum of sexuality: sensuality, metaphor, fetishism, fantasy, voyeurism, violence, humor, love and intimacy.
4/6 10pm backroom $8 schedule: 10:01 The lisps Juan Prophet Organization Having toured with underground icons Sleepytime Gorilla Musem, Skeleton Key and others, these “bizarro-pop stalwarts” and/or “vaudevillian circus-rockers” (depending on what review you read) have developed an unclassifiable style that “can change one's manners and moods largely.” According their hometown paper the Nashville Scene, the Juan Prophet Organization “play-act morbid lullabies with stunning Tom Waits abstraction, combing the hyperbolic minefields of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with an avant-garde relish. It's a kaleidoscopic grab bag of Dixieland jazz, chamber pop, vaudeville and an anything goes dictum pureed to perfection." Being six-member “multi-instrumentationalists,” they carry with them guitar, bass, drums, violin, viola, Rhodes piano, six vocals, accordian, banjo, trumpet, cornet, clarinet, saxophone, glockenspiel, percussion, and other noises. If you like the sounds of Carl Stalling, John Zorn, Mr. Bungle, Danny Elfman and other musical innovators, this is the band to see this month. Southeast Performer put it best; this music is “for courageous and sophisticated listeners.” Juan Prophet Organization is a “breathtaking and compelling rock orchestra that levels the playing field of so-called independent bands.” www.myspace.com/juanprophetorganization Mercat Mercat sound like a tired sailor looking through the snow at the shore, where he sees a broken-down amusement park that was built in the '30s and lost popularity in the '50s. He feels a bit seasick, and his solitude makes him miss the opportunity to be passive aggressive with the people he loves. He considers the benefits of, once he gets home, letting a pack of anthropomorphic animals loose in a warehouse of old instruments.
The Lisps are a New York-based assemblage of 21st century post-rock n' vaudeville auteurs. They write songs about science and love and sometimes perform in costumes, with tap shoes and without microphones. The Lisps are the public/performative version of all the relationships you're struggling with.
Nikki Shapiro Nikki Shapiro has good indie music credentials because he’s handsome. But every now and then he accidentally writes a good tune, the fucker. He got his start in 1994 as bass player and vocalist in Georgia-based Rubber Experiment - a group that disbanded in 1997 and reformed as a math-rock outfit called Matter Eater in North Carolina. He then went on to pal around with progressive rock gods Pile of Face. Now Shapiro is solo, having switched to playing the piano and stuttering his own melancholy pop-rock tunes. He has a couple EPs under his belt and is expecting a full-length album out this year on Positronic Records. Fans of poignant piano ballads will love this fuckin guy.
4/7 frontroom $5
Saturday 4/7 frontroom
YOUR 33 BLACK ANGELS— Y33BA will be playing its first show since the March release of “Lonely Street,” the band’s debut album. The band loves quiet evenings with a paramour or two but does not believe in quiet parties. Advance press for Your 33 Black Angels: “Sweetly Addictive Rock” Melena Ryzik, The New York Times Urban Eye. “Just when you thought Brooklyn bands were out of refreshing sounds, along comes Your 33 Black Angels.” Sarah Nowak, The Deli Magazine. BUTANE VARIATIONS—Phil, JP, Thom, Mike, Michael and Chris will be releasing their debut record by early summer on a sweet Brooklyn-based label called achord recordings. They write beautiful spiritual incantations and, unlike Y33BA, they can actually play their instruments. MADAM ROBOT and the Lust Brigade—Captain Heartlock, the band’s de facto spokesman and sonic visionary, has coined the term “Flower Punk” for his raucous gang of psychedelic cowboys. Madam Robot has swarms of converts; the horde is growing. The sound is from outta nowhere baby. The Ravages—This pop-punk quartet is smokin’ in concert and is, in Walt Whitman’s words, full of “prurient provocations.” We are but kindling to their fires. I have a crush on them, alas, even if ‘tis in vain. Thee Mindshots—Authentic and original at the same time. Holy cow what a great sound. I would say it’s like The Byrds but I like these guys, these MINDSHOTS better. Take that, McGuinn! Endsville—A boogie-woogie garage-surf sound featuring our own January 1963 and a certain amazing guitarist from a certain amazing band called Heavy Creatures. Heartlock on keys, Greg on drums. Their first show ever for real! The trouble starts at 8pm and does not end ever. DJ January 1963 will be spinning the black circles ‘til dawn and on!
4/7 back $8 Heavy Weather Music 8pm Fudakochi
4/7 back $5 The Wailing Wall, Red Sails, Alixandra Macmillan-Fieldel The Wailing Wall (pictured)- www.myspace.com/jesserifkin
4/8 frontroom
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A Week of Kindness and the Barehand Wolfchokers present:
, $5 Suggested 
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